Redefining the role of designers within an urban community using digital design and localized manufacturing of wearables

The maker culture has created a dynamic in which designers are less responsible for the design and quality of the final product, but for the tools the consumer uses to create their own. While additive manufacturing (AM) is gaining acceptance among the general public, it is still seen as a prototyping tool instead of a high quality production...

The right fidelity: Designedly representations that enhance multidisciplinary product development

In product development, representations of the intended product are needed to enable specialists to learn about what they develop together. A variety of representations is deployed, ranging from textual documents like requirements, up to integrated prototypes. The difference between these representations is the fidelity: the degree to which a...

Reducing the time-to-market of investment castings through additive manufacturing & casting design sessions

Investment Casting (IC) is one of the oldest manufacturing process known to mankind. It is used within a wide variety of applications and it is possible to cast almost any metal. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is one of the newest ways of making products and recent advancements have made it possible to manufacture single parts and prototypes via AM...

Mapping children's experiences: Adapting contextmapping tools to child participants

Within the area of user-centered design, Contextmapping is an approach to participatory user experience research that provides designers and user researchers with a clear workflow and hands-on toolkit. It acknowledges the user as the expert of his or her own experiences and aims to deliver rich insights to designers: deep, authentic and...

Quantitative Application Data Flow Characterization for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures

Recent trends show a steady increase in the utilization of heterogeneous multicore architectures in order to address the ever-growing need for computing performance. These emerging architectures pose specific challenges with regard to their programmability. In addition, they require efficient application mapping schemes to fully harness their...

System-level Fault-Tolerance Analysis of Small Satellite On-Board Computers

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) electronic components offer cost-effective solutions for the development of On-Board Computers (OBCs) in the small satellite industry. However, the COTS parts are not originally designed to withstand the space radiation environment. Traditional fault-tolerance practices rely on expensive radiation tests or are...

Access to Communication: Mobile communication for everyone

This master thesis shows the process of the design and implementation of new products and services for blind and deaf people. In the analysis phase interviews are done with blind and deaf to gain insight into the targetgroup regarding their needs and problems. Focus is on problems with mobile communication or that can be solved with mobile...

Benefits of co-design in service design projects

In many service design projects, co-design is seen as critical to success and a range of benefits are attributed to co-design. In this paper, we present an overview of benefits of co-design in service design projects, in order to help the people involved to articulate more precisely and realistically which benefits to aim for. Based on a...

Cooperative work generation via a brand of sustainable jewelry for the Dutch market

Aiming to boost the artisanal work and legal mining in Colombia, this project is focused on the creation of a brand for sustainable handmade jewelry, the collaborative work between Dutch and Colombian designers, and the strategy to successfully implemente it in the Netherlands. The first phase is the conception, which analyses both the Colombian...

Collaborative co-design of emerging multi-technologies for surgery

The EU Research Training Network on Augmented Reality in Surgery (ARIS*ER) was established with two aims: (1) to develop next-generation novel image guidance (augmented reality based on medical images) and cross-linked robotic systems (automatic control loops guided by information sensed from the patient) and (2) to educate young researchers in...

Learning about users and developing co-design capabilities for energy saving on the local level

European energy policy aims to shift the European energy market toward an increased focus on energy services based on end-user needs. This requires a close understanding of the role of end-users and their needs and practices. Our paper is based on a EU FP7 project called CHANGING BEHAVIOUR and focuses on interaction between energy users and...

Harnessing Children's Creativity in Contextmapping Activities

Recently developed co-design methods ask for users’ creative outcomes all through the design process. Designers are familiar with the creative process but users are not. The heuristic tasks given to users should reveal their creativity and harness it for high-quality outcomes. Contextmapping is a new co-design method following the same need as...

A Practice Oriented Approach to User Centered Sustainable Design

This paper describes a method for insight generation for sustainable innovations. The method takes a practice oriented approach aiming for product ideas for practice level innovations. The method was applied in a case study on the practice of bathing. Insights on sustainable bathing innovations were gathered during a two-week period in which...